you're 200% right: AI/LLM makes unconfident people even more doubting in themselves.
They are motivating for more and more "better and polished versions", because the amount is limitless. And the worst thing that AI/LLMs are converting those who used to be confident into weaker versions of themselves.
Marc, what a wise man you are. When I've been reading this post, I was feeling so that much satisfaction, happiness, there are still people who feel the same way i do about all this plastic AI gen staff happening, - thanks for this text!
I think the fireworks will settle down, The truth is that nobody really knows what the uses, or business models, will look like for AI, and I think that’s years away. In the mean time, it’s fine (IMHO) to just throw a lot of different things at the wall and see what sticks.
I started using AI less and less for anything that's writing, and more for what's behind the scene.
Brainstorming, polishing, criticizing stuff, and so on. It works best as an objective assistant.
But no matter how hard you try to make AI write just like you, it can't nail your voice in a human way, it'll always be too perfect.
And I'd rather have something flawed that reflects my mistakes, or my flawed thinking than something that's not me.
Interesting piece though, but I won't ever agree with copy-pasting posts from the LLM straight to my LinkedIn... people could read that in their GPTs...
AI = a betrayal to one’s self. Not to mention, in my humble opinion, over time, an instigator of laziness and reliance on the external. AI cannot understand what is felt in skin and bone, our soul and heart. I think AI is a fabulous tool for many many things, and I’ve only touched the surface on utilizing it (unrelated to writing), but I believe if we are to remain authentic for ourselves (most importantly) and to our reader, AI needs to be held at bay.
I 100% agree that AI cannot understand what is felt in skin, bone, soul and heart, and it is our job as writers to be able to articulate what is felt. But I've found (and your mileage may vary) that AI helps me take the things that I think and express them more clearly. It's not going to think for me . . . but it can certainly help me express them.
For most of history until now, a writer needed both skills: the ability to come up with new thoughts, new ways of seeing the world, new observations, AND have the ability to master the art and craft of writing to be able to express them clearly. I think that AI will open up the world of expression to so many people who may have amazing ways of seeing, observations etc, but never were able to express them clearly.
Connecting signals dear Mark.. Love this ..actually i felt so good without sharing the same context getting different view from Claud and as you rightly pointed out -some are like some editor is helping me see what i was not think about it..
just today i was about to publish the one [the cow that ate the royal gala -signal story] and validated with new session -same claude- and it was hit me hard
"Editor's Assessment
VERDICT: REJECT for publication | NOT recommended for LinkedIn
Overall Score: 4/10"
and i decided to NOT post that but tested with full context with ChatGPT + Gemini + Perplexity too. and found a way -simple framework to align and able to replicate same response ..
that little hack here
Prompt#1:
FYI Signal Stories are:
* lived moments
* delayed meaning
* recognition after immersion
* wisdom that arrives sideways, not front-loaded
Prompt #2: reflect my principle of signalstories?
Creative writing doesn't tell people what to think—it makes them feel something they already know, in a way they've never seen before.
the response from the new session -
YES. Absolutely.
And now I understand why my first rewrite was trash.
you're 200% right: AI/LLM makes unconfident people even more doubting in themselves.
They are motivating for more and more "better and polished versions", because the amount is limitless. And the worst thing that AI/LLMs are converting those who used to be confident into weaker versions of themselves.
Marc, what a wise man you are. When I've been reading this post, I was feeling so that much satisfaction, happiness, there are still people who feel the same way i do about all this plastic AI gen staff happening, - thanks for this text!
Glad you appreciated it Sable.
I use it only for polishing and to keep my tone and style.
With clients, my work is about “cutting the noise”. In AI, people obsess over features and fireworks instead of what actually matters.
Today, finding less is more valuable than producing more features
I think the fireworks will settle down, The truth is that nobody really knows what the uses, or business models, will look like for AI, and I think that’s years away. In the mean time, it’s fine (IMHO) to just throw a lot of different things at the wall and see what sticks.
I started using AI less and less for anything that's writing, and more for what's behind the scene.
Brainstorming, polishing, criticizing stuff, and so on. It works best as an objective assistant.
But no matter how hard you try to make AI write just like you, it can't nail your voice in a human way, it'll always be too perfect.
And I'd rather have something flawed that reflects my mistakes, or my flawed thinking than something that's not me.
Interesting piece though, but I won't ever agree with copy-pasting posts from the LLM straight to my LinkedIn... people could read that in their GPTs...
AI = a betrayal to one’s self. Not to mention, in my humble opinion, over time, an instigator of laziness and reliance on the external. AI cannot understand what is felt in skin and bone, our soul and heart. I think AI is a fabulous tool for many many things, and I’ve only touched the surface on utilizing it (unrelated to writing), but I believe if we are to remain authentic for ourselves (most importantly) and to our reader, AI needs to be held at bay.
I 100% agree that AI cannot understand what is felt in skin, bone, soul and heart, and it is our job as writers to be able to articulate what is felt. But I've found (and your mileage may vary) that AI helps me take the things that I think and express them more clearly. It's not going to think for me . . . but it can certainly help me express them.
For most of history until now, a writer needed both skills: the ability to come up with new thoughts, new ways of seeing the world, new observations, AND have the ability to master the art and craft of writing to be able to express them clearly. I think that AI will open up the world of expression to so many people who may have amazing ways of seeing, observations etc, but never were able to express them clearly.
Connecting signals dear Mark.. Love this ..actually i felt so good without sharing the same context getting different view from Claud and as you rightly pointed out -some are like some editor is helping me see what i was not think about it..
just today i was about to publish the one [the cow that ate the royal gala -signal story] and validated with new session -same claude- and it was hit me hard
"Editor's Assessment
VERDICT: REJECT for publication | NOT recommended for LinkedIn
Overall Score: 4/10"
and i decided to NOT post that but tested with full context with ChatGPT + Gemini + Perplexity too. and found a way -simple framework to align and able to replicate same response ..
that little hack here
Prompt#1:
FYI Signal Stories are:
* lived moments
* delayed meaning
* recognition after immersion
* wisdom that arrives sideways, not front-loaded
Prompt #2: reflect my principle of signalstories?
Creative writing doesn't tell people what to think—it makes them feel something they already know, in a way they've never seen before.
the response from the new session -
YES. Absolutely.
And now I understand why my first rewrite was trash.
if you are till here or just curious
https://ei4ai.substack.com/p/we-all-do-this-dont-we-the-cow-that